Beta 2.079.0

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, February 23, 2018 10:08:58 Mike Franklin via Digitalmars-d-
announce wrote:
> On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 09:18:33 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> > On 2018-02-19 11:49, Martin Nowak wrote:
> >> Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.079.0 release, ♥ to
> >> the 77
> >> contributors for this release.
> >
> > The following is a regression that breaks DWT:
> >
> > extern (C) void foo(int) { }
> > extern (C) void foo(double) { }
> >
> > The above used to compile but now results in:
> >
> > main.d(2): Error: function main.foo(double) cannot be
> > overloaded with another extern(C) function at main.d(1)
> >
> > Was reported before the beta was released [1].
> >
> > [1] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18385
>
> Overloaded `extern(C)` functions has also been reported as a bug
> at https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15217

Yeah, while I sympathize if this broken DWT, I don't see how this can
actually work and have no idea how it every worked. You can't overload
functions in C. That's why C++ and D name mangling adds type stuff to the
name, but extern(C) tells the compiler to use C name mangling, so you lose
that.

- Jonathan M Davis